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GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being ...
[33] [34] Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages. [35] [36] Many of those web pages are available at mirror sites such as the Internet Archive [37] and OOCities.org. [38] Yahoo! GeoPlanet - Offered geographic information services both directly and via third-party applications; shut down in August ...
Archive Team is a group dedicated to digital preservation and web archiving that was co-founded by Jason Scott in 2009. [ 1][ 2] Its primary focus is the copying and preservation of content housed by at-risk online services. Some of its projects include the partial preservation of GeoCities, [ 3][ 4] Yahoo!
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the 1990s. As such, Tripod formed part of the first wave of user-generated content. Free webpages are no longer available and have been replaced by paid ...
Neocities. Neocities is a commercial web hosting service for static pages. It offers 1 GB of storage space for free sites and no server-side scripting for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal is to "revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities ".
As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country.
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the largest and oldest web archive in the world, dating back to 1996. Internet Archive also provide various web archiving services, including Archive-IT, Save Page Now, and domain level contract crawls. The Wayback Machine is the publicly available access service to Internet Archive and partners' collections.
Where the links do seem appropriate for inclusion, it may be necessary to add a link to an acceptable archive. User:Amalthea has created a script to aid with both review and location of archives. When the script is enabled, it will provide via javascript a viewable link to you of an archived version of a geocities link at the top of an article.